by Doug
Saratoga Springs Utah Temple
The Saratoga Springs temple is my home temple. The temple itself is concrete but there is stone on the east side of the temple around the east entrance and on the sign for the temple. This piece is leftover from the original construction and was given to us by a friend of the store. It is a limestone type stone that is yellowish brown in block form but, when cut up, has beautiful shade of red in it.
This inside version of stone from the Saratoga Springs temple is the beautiful marble stone that is used in the floor of the temple. These scrap pieces were leftover from the original construction of the temple and given to us by one of our friends involved in the actual build. It is so beautiful that we wanted to give our customers this second option.
The blue version is one of our personal favorites. We rarely offer two different stones from the same temple, more or less three. This stone was just too beautiful to pass up. Going with a water theme in the temple, there is a thin line of beautiful blue marble that runs as an accent down the stairs in the temple. This is stone is scrap leftover from the original construction.